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ART
THE WORLD OUTSIDE An artist of Cuban-Dominican heritage, Quisqueya Henriquez is given her first major survey, at the Bronx Museum, with a selection of sculptures, installations, drawings, photographs, videos, and light/ sound works created between 1991 and 2007. Ms. Henriquez aligns herself with an avant-garde group of Cuban artists who rose to prominence during the 1980s. Through Sunday, January 27, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street, 718-681-6000, $5 general, $3 students and seniors.
LETTERS TO A YOUNG ARTIST An exhibit of correspondence between an artist and his young colleague, “Painted With Words: Vincent van Gogh’s Letters to Émile Bernard,” has its opening at the Morgan Library & Museum. The show collects 20 letters and sketches written between 1887 and 1889, and offers a rare look at the life and creative process of a master of modern art. The letters chronicle van Gogh’s struggles, as he reached his artistic maturity in isolation in Arles and St. Rémy. Friday, runs through Sunday, January 6, Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave. at 36th Street, Tuesday–Thursday, 10:30 a.m.–5 p.m., Friday, 10:30 a.m.–9 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., 212-685-0008, $12 general, $8 students, seniors, and children. For complete information, go to themorgan.org.
DANCE
THE COLLABORATOR “Invention: Merce Cunningham & Collaborators,” an exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, offers a glimpse at the choreographer’s creative process, including four key discoveries. Mr. Cunningham’s manuscripts, designs, and computer-generated choreography are on view together with archival materials collected from a selection of artists and musicians with whom he has worked. Composer John Cage, and artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns figure prominently. The exhibit is presented by the library, the Cunningham Dance Foundation, and the John Cage Trust. Through Saturday, October 13, Monday and Thursday, noon–8 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m.–6 p.m., New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, between 64th and 65th streets, 212-870-1630, free.
FILM
VOICE OF THE SPARROW In “La Vie En Rose” (2007), a portrait of the legendary French singer Edith Piaf, actress Marion Cotillar re-creates Piaf’s fancied but ultimately tragic life. The biopic follows the national icon’s rise from the streets of Paris to international acclaim. She befriended some of the most eccentric personalities of her generation, including the French nightclub singer Yves Montand and actress Marlene Dietrich along the way, and her interpretations of such ballads as “Non, je regrette rien” and “La Vie en Rose” became classics. The film is directed by Olivier Dahan. Friday, 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 5:15, 8, and 10:45 p.m., Angelika Film Center, 18 W. Houston St. at Mercer Street, 212-995-2000, $11 general, $7.50 seniors and children under 12.
A CAMERA IN HAND The Film Society of Lincoln Center, in conjunction with the 45th New York Film Festival, presents “Tropical Analysis: The Films of Joaquim Pedro de Andrade,” a retrospective of the works of this major, if little-known, director. Andrade was among the key figures of Cinema Novo, a somewhat disparate movement that emerged in Brazil in the 1950s. The group of young filmmakers had ambitions to challenge Hollywood’s hold over the Brazilian film market. During Andrade’s career, he produced such highlights as the fully restored “Macunaíma” (1969), about a heroic figure who travels from the jungle to the big city, meeting con artists, urban guerrillas, and industrialists along the way. The film screens on Friday at 5 and 9:20 p.m., and is shown with “The Master of Apipucos” (1959), an 8-minute short about the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freire. Through Tuesday, October 9, dates and times vary, Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St., between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, 212-496-3809, $11 general, $7 members and students, $7 seniors weekday matinee screenings only. For complete information, go to filmlinc.com.
KING OF THE NIGHTLIFE “Toots” (2007) a documentary by Kristi Jacobson, about the owner of one of city’s great saloons. A friend to the famous, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, Toots Shor entertained luminaries for 30 years at his eponymous watering hole at West 51st Street, before he suffered a downward spiral in the 1970s. Shor arrived in New York in 1930 determined to make a life for himself. Ms. Jacobson, who is also Shor’s granddaughter, presents an unapologetic portrait. “Utilizing film clips, still photographs, and video segments from TV shows (such as Toots’s featured appearance on “This Is Your Life”), Ms. Jacobson has reconstructed the heart of New York nightlife between World War II and the Vietnam era,” Allen Barra wrote in the September 14 New York Sun. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 1, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:15, and 10 p.m., Quad Cinema, 34 W. 13th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-255-8800, $9.50.
MUSIC OF THE HEART The Museum of the Moving Image hosts a screening of “The Orchestra of the Piazza Vittorio” (2006), an award-winning Italian documentary about the 5-year journey of an orchestra. The screening is followed by a live performance by 11 members of the orchestra. The film’s director, Agostino Ferrente, is also on hand to discuss the film. The plot follows Italian musician Mario Tronco, who is joined by a group of artists and musicians from all over the world, as he leads the charge to save the historic Apollo Theater. The group hatches an ambitious plan, not long after the events of September 11, 2001, to build a multiethnic house orchestra for the Harlem venue. (The film includes English subtitles.) Friday, 7 p.m., 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, 718-784-4520, $15 general, $5 museum members.
FOOD & DRINK
BREWS AND BRATWURST Situated at the center of Madison Square Park, the Shake Shack is celebrating “Shacktoberfest,” a nod to the German holiday of Oktoberfest. The festival begins on Friday, and opens with performances by accordionist Al Zimmerman, at 1 and 5:30 p.m. Traditional brats and sausages, made by the Usinger’s company, include andouille sausage with red pepper relish, Stuttgarter knackwurst with cranberry-horseradish relish, and Italian sausage with pumpkin mostarda. Drink selections include the Oktoberfest brews of Brooklyn Brewery and Otter Creek, and Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale. Friday through Sunday, October 14th, 11 a.m.–11 p.m., Shake Shack, Madison Square Park, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, 212-889-6600, free admission, à la carte menu prices apply.
MUSIC
GOSPEL GROOVE St. Peter’s Church in Midtown East, where jazz performances are presented year-round, is known to its congregation as the “Jazz Ministry.” The church holds its annual weekend Jazz Fest on Friday and Sunday, featuring performances by Rome Neal, Kneebody, Billy Taylor, Frank Wess, Larry Willis, and Wycliffe Gordon. A Jazz Mass, composed by Ike Sturm, is performed on Sunday at 5 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m., Sunday, 5 p.m.–1 a.m., Saint Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Ave. at 54th Street, 212-935-2200, $15 for Friday’s performances, $20 for Sunday’s performances, free for jazz mass.
PAINTINGS
FUN WITH DICK AND JANE Marcus Kenney makes collage paintings using postage stamps, bits of wallpaper, marble dust, and images taken from the “Dick and Jane” children’s book series. His latest exhibit, “I’m Tempted To Begin With the Ending,” showcases these collage paintings, which are inspired by Mr. Kenney’s fascination with the fleeting nature of Americana, and the precious items that hearken back to a bygone American culture. Selections from the exhibit include “In the Beginning” (2007), above. Through Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Robert Steele Gallery, 511 W. 25th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-243-0165, free.
READINGS
LIVING IN AMERICA A host and producer of the National Public Radio program “This American Life,” Ira Glass, discusses the 14 stories featured in his newly published book, “The New Kings of Nonfiction” (Riverhead Trade). Mr. Glass, who collected his favorite pieces for publication, is joined by three contributors. Featured writers include Malcolm Gladwell, whose story,”Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg,” became a chapter in “The Tipping Point”; Chuck Klosterman, the author of “Killing Yourself to Live: 85 % of a True Story,”and the author of “The Orchid Thief” Susan Orlean. The event benefits 826 Chicago, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center in Illinois. Monday, 8 p.m., Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St., between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, 212- 840-2824, $30.
SOIRÉES
SAIL AWAY Gilda’s Club, named after the late comedian Gilda Radner, raises funds and awareness for families stricken by cancer. The international arm of the nonprofit organization, Gilda’s Club Worldwide, holds a benefit cocktail reception aboard the SeaFair Grand Luxe, a five-level ship designed to carry art galleries that specialize in 17th to 19th-century decorative arts, 20th to 21st-century modern and contemporary art, Asian art, andmore. Tuesday,6:30p.m.,Chelsea Piers, Pier 59, 23rd Street and the Hudson River, 914-579-1000, $250 and up.
TALKS
GERTRUDE AND ALICE A writer for the New Yorker magazine, Janet Malcolm, discusses the couple at the center of her new book, “Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice” (Yale). Ms. Malcolm’s literary biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, “elderly Jewish lesbians” as the author describes them, explores the unconventional relationship shared by the expatriate pair, living in post-World War I France. The talk kicks off this season’s “Biographers and Brunch” series at the 92nd Street Y. Sunday, 11 a.m., 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-415-5542, $40 general, $34 for Unterberg Poetry club members.
CANVAS CHAT As part of its “Artists Talk on Art” series, the School of Visual Arts presents “The Power of Art Criticism: New York’s Top Art Critics Speak,” a discussion about contemporary art criticism in today’s press. Panelists include The New York Sun’s Gary Shapiro, a critic for the New York Times, Phyllis Braff, and two writers for Art in America, Robert Berlind and Gerard Haggerty. Friday, 7 p.m., SVA, Amphitheater, 209 E. 23rd St. at Third Avenue, 212-592-2610, free.
THEATER
ATTACK OF LOVE A theatrical operetta, “The Beastly Bombing or a Terrible Tale of Terrorists Tamed by the Tangles of True Love,” is presented as part of “The New York Musical Theatre Festival.” The subversive comedy follows Al Qaeda and white supremacist terrorist plotters whose efforts are intercepted by love, with lyrics by Julien Nitzberg and music by Roger Neill. Friday, 4:30 and 8 p.m., Sunday, 1 p.m., festival through Sunday, Julia Miles Theatre, 424 W. 55th St., between Ninth and Tenth avenues, 212-352-3101, $20. For complete information, go to nymf.org.
A PHANTOM MENACE “The Phantom of the Opera,” a long-running Broadway favorite, continues to be a popular destination for many families with young adolescents in tow. The musical, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, tells the story of a deformed musical genius who hides in a Parisian opera theater, and falls in love with a new soprano, Christine. The”phantom”soon makes Christine his captive in an effort to separate the singer from her lover. The show currently stars Howard McGillin as the Phantom, and Sandra Joseph as Christine. Through an open run, Monday, Thursday, and Friday, 8 p.m., Tuesday, 7 p.m., Wednesday and Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m., Majestic Theater, 245 W. 44th St., between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, 212-239-6200, $20–$100.
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